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Lamentations 5
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Holman Christian Standard Bible®
HCSB
Klagelieder 5, Klagovisorna 5, Lamentaciones 5, Lamentações 5, Lamentazioni 5, Книга Плач Єремії 5, Плач Иеремии 5, سفر مراثي إرميا 5, 哀歌 5, 耶利米哀歌 5, 예레미아애가 5, Klaagliederen 5
1Yahweh, remember what has happened to us.
Look, and see our disgrace!
2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our houses to foreigners.
3We have become orphans, fatherless;
our mothers are widows.
4We must pay for the water we drink;
our wood comes at a price.
5We are closely pursued;
we are tired, and no one offers us rest.
6We made a treaty with[Q] Egypt
and with Assyria, to get enough food.
7Our fathers sinned; they no longer exist,
but we bear their punishment.
8Slaves rule over us;
no one rescues us from their hands.
9We secure our food at the risk of our lives
because of the sword in the wilderness.
10Our skin is as hot[R] as an oven
from the ravages of hunger.
11Women are raped in Zion,
girls in the cities of Judah.
12Princes are hung up by their hands;
elders are shown no respect.
13Young men labor at millstones;
boys stumble under loads of wood.
14The elders have left the city gate,
the young men, their music.
15Joy has left our hearts;
our dancing has turned to mourning.
16The crown has fallen from our head.
Woe to us, for we have sinned.
17Because of this, our heart is sick;
because of these, our eyes grow dim:
18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate
and has jackals prowling in it.
19You, Lord, are enthroned forever;
Your throne endures from generation to generation.
20Why have You forgotten us forever,
abandoned us for our entire lives?
21Lord, restore us to Yourself, so we may return;
renew our days as in former times,
22unless You have completely rejected us
and are intensely angry with us.
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